Does it work now or is it still useless while leveling? I'm redoing my talent trees after the patch now and thought I'd ask if anyone knows before I finalize my shadow spec.
As far as I can tell, it now works and is useful again. Shadow Orb is a part of what you gain by speccing shadow in the first place (not sure when, but I auto had it on my priest which is only ~65). The tooltip was broken saying it grants 0% damage but the shadow orbs do properly increase MB damage and empowered shadow increases dot damage (also says 0%), and the talent definitely increases the proc chance.